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On small balanceable, strongly-balanceable and omnitonal graphs

Combinatorics 2020-01-23 v3

Abstract

In Ramsey theory for graphs we are given a graph GG and we are required to find the least n0n_0 such that, for any nn0n\geq n_0, any red/blue colouring of the edges of KnK_n gives a subgraph GG all of whose edges are blue or all are red. Here we shall be requiring that, for any red/blue colouring of the edges of KnK_n, there must be a copy of GG such that its edges are partitioned equally as red or blue (or the sizes of the colour classes differs by one in the case when GG has an odd number of edges). This introduces the notion of balanceable graphs and the balance number of GG which, if it exists, is the minimum integer bal(n,G)(n, G) such that, for any red/blue colouring of E(Kn)E(K_n) with more than bal(n,G)(n, G) edges of either colour, KnK_n will contain a balanced coloured copy of GG as described above. This parameter was introduced by Caro, Hansberg and Montejano in \cite{2018arXivCHM}. There, the authors also introduce the strong balance number sbal(n,G)(n,G) and the more general omnitonal number ot(n,G)(n, G) which requires copies of GG containing a complete distribution of the number of red and blue edges over E(G)E(G). In this paper we shall catalogue bal(n,G)(n, G), sbal(n,G)(n, G) and ot(n,G)(n,G) for all graphs GG on at most four edges. We shall be using some of the key results of Caro et al, which we here reproduce in full, as well as some new results which we prove here. For example, we shall prove that the union of two bipartite graphs with the same number of edges is always balanceable.

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@article{arxiv.1908.08237,
  title  = {On small balanceable, strongly-balanceable and omnitonal graphs},
  author = {Yair Caro and Josef Lauri and Christina Zarb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.08237},
  year   = {2020}
}
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